inquiry Quotes

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer... ...

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to... ...

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.